In the photo below you see the new book store at the Museum of Fine Art's Boston in its just opened Contemporary Wing. Front and center, (top shelf, left) in a display of current books is "DREAMS of REPAIR," the book of my artwork published earlier this year by Charta in Milan Italy. Another good surprise is a mention of my artwork and "DREAMS of REPAIR" in the Brandeis Alumni Magazine
Occupy Boston on a sunny fall day. Today, October 29, 2011 it is very cold, wet and inhospitable, as if to emphasize the painfully difficult task of providing safety, comfort, healthcare, income and food for all. Lets do what we can to support these people who are broadening the conversation about social justice in the USA.
The beach in Gloucester MA, the reading room at the Boston Public Library, my cello bow and a tiny lost raincoat looking for its owner, all images from the last month and inspiration for months to come.
Just photographed this image from 2002. Hard to keep current and yet there is something current about this watercolor....It is perhaps a precurser of work I am doing now using sumi ink. So I'll let this image of light stand for a transitional moment at the beginning of a new month.
No big trips planned this summer but that doesn't keep me from seeing the world through the lens of my pencil and some printer's ink. In this case, a series of images was inspired by an old envelope.
One hundred years ago today: Check out this link for more information:
Remembering Triangle Fire
Perhaps this watercolor image evokes the Triangle Fire in which 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant girls and women, died on this date in 1911
It was a pleasure to celebrate the release of my book, Dreams of Repair in the USA. Friends gathered at Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA for a book launch party. Dreams of Repair was the star of the afternoon.
Amid friends February 20, 2011 for book signing at Pierre Menard Gallery.
The artist/author will be selling and signing books at this event. dreams of repair will also be available at art book stores, noteably, the book store of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Amazon.com currently sells dreams of repair.
For information about the Pierre Menard Gallery exhibit (Art work by Boris Lurie) on view during Rubin's book event, check Pierre Menard Gallery's website: gallery website
It is a pleasure to announce that once again you can access my website, EllyRubin.com. This website offers a gallery of artwork (c.2002-2005) as well as background and perspective on major art projects in my studio and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Please check out Eleanor Rubin's website. I hope you'll also continue to check http://ellyrubinjournal.typepad.com regularly, for up-to-date posts.
Celebrating my good fortune to be well and to have published, Dreams of Repair, (see July 13 post below) in the year I turned 70! The photo below was taken by Joanne Leonard, my identical twin sister who traveled to Boston to celebrate with me. Her book, Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir is an extraordinarily beautiful book which we celebrated also.
I painted this birds-in-flight quadruptic (tryptic + one), in 1993 when the barn was a brown shingled structure with broken windows on the street-facing side. The windows were not easy to restore (each had several small panes missing and the frames were falling apart.) So the "birds- in- flight" mural was conceived and painted and here it has remained. When we renewed the barn (my husband David put up red-stained board and batten siding in 2007*), the faded, brown birds looked a little less vibrant than they once had and by 2009 their sad deterioration began to be an eyesore as the surface of the plywood peeled away.
All these years later, (1993-2010) I still think the flying birds are a dynamic idea I wanted to restore this "mural" but match the new colors of the barn better. Below you see some of the process of renewal. New boards were primed and painted white, a new stencil cut using remnants of the old one. ( I'm struck as I look at these pictures in side my studio how many instances of stencils there are in the various things hung on the walls. Over the years I have used stencils in many ways in my artwork. )
As you can probably tell, I'm not trying to create recognizable birds or accurate flight...but am satisfied with this metaphor for imagination taking flight.
*Post Script: To see the brown shingled barn being restored in 2007, see the left hand column of this blog, where I've created a photo album ("Studio Restored") of David working to restore the barn.
